Legislators Plan Recess As March Session Near
The Iowa Senate approved a House resolution for a recess from February 25 to March 4 to allow lawmakers to attend to March 1 business at home. Other action included a deer and pheasant protection measure enabling a bounty program upon petition and a bill tightening possession of skins and carcasses after a closed season.
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State House
Des Moines
Senite
Trea Volnes
Censte
Menator Gunderson
Winnebaco County
Geome
Fish and Game
Keota Sub-district Declamatory Contest Recap
Keota hosted a declamatory contest with contestants from Keota Sigourney and Delta. Lester Smith and Elizabeth Neyman of Keota won top honors in oratory and dramatic events respectively while several others placed across categories. A large program featured glee clubs and a high heel orchestra with judges Miss Bernardine Neville and Washington school teachers.
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Keota
Methodist Church
Sigorney
Delta
Elizabeth Neyman
Springton
Lincoln
Herbert Seliger
Mary Elizabeth Shaw
Sigourney
Mamie Ciesna
Mrs Sherwood
Harriett Pike
Lois Ochs
Roger Plaff
Sigournel
Pete Vansen
Ada Pike
Delta Claim Ad
Mary Louise
Hig Weheel Orchestra
Bernardine Neville
Washington Iown
Aikens and
Kerr
Washington
Knowles
Ottumwa Hospital
Ralph Hotchkiss
Das Jay Hitchcock
Avonlea Canada
Twins Wed Brothers in Ottumwa Double Ceremony
Ottumwa reports a double wedding where Florence M. Benson and Flossie M. Benson married Freddie Ro and Harold D. McCoy on Saturday. Rev. A A Heath officiated using a single ring ceremony. all four spouses are Ottumwa natives.
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Ottumwa
A. A. Heath
Florence M
Flossie M. Benson
J. W. Benson
Freddie Ro
Harold D. McCoy
J. W McCoy
Glendale News Highlights Local Life and School Events
John O'Brien recovered from a cold while Donald Jackson suffered a broken arm at Spread Eagle school during play. Teachers Mrs Mable Wallace and Ora Nicholson organized a valentines day party with sewing and singing. The main road through the area was repaired and reopened, bringing relief to Glendale residents.
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Glendale
John O'Brien
Altho
Tim
Clayton Nicholson
Murray Smylie
Donald Jackson
Spread Eagle
Tie
Karl Rediinger
Mr. Jones
Tena Gerdes
Tom Gerdes
James McCreedy
Washington
William Miller
Rocha
Valentine Marty
Ora Nicholson
Valentine
Mable Wallace
John Stewart
William McCartney
Spread Eaglé School
Glendale School
Gingerich Improves at County Hospital After Injury
Jesse Gingerich of Kalona, injured Saturday while helping move a house north of town, is reported improved today at the county hospital. He has a fractured skull but physicians believe he has an excellent chance to survive.
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Jesse Gingerich
Kalona
Miss Carrie Palmer Visits Relatives in Washington
A notice notes Miss Carrie Palmer visiting at her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Bert Oil in Washington, with a light hearted aside that a small want ad would suffice for news.
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Carrie Palmer
Bert Oil
Washington
Missionary Play By Baptist Young Women Friday Evening
The First Baptist Church mission society will present a play titled The Pill Bottle Friday night starting promptly at 8. The show, open to the public, features about 25 young women and promises a well acted production centered on medical missions in India. The plot follows a college graduate who travels to India and accepts a missionary call.
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Young Women's Missionary Society of the
First Baptist Church
Tose Orlock
Seciet
Sald India
Ud Eastern College
India
City Population Stated At 49,224 In Council Bluffs
The city directors report Council Bluffs population at 49,224 as of February, according to publishers of the new city directory. The figure highlights a growing urban count for the midwestern city.
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Blufes
Connell Bluffs
Southern Texas towns visitor recounts growing prosperity
R Kuhn, a former Missouri resident now living in Harlingen Texas, describes a thriving district with irrigation, multiple crops and a building boom. He reports citrus farmer Arthur Therion and family are flourishing nearby while Kuhn plans a brief stay before returning south.
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Texas
R. Kuhn
Harlingen
Kuhn
Nandle
Issouri
Sire Texanc
Texac
Warlingen
Arthur Therion
Mr Kuhn
Arthur
Mr. Therion
Weo Kuhn
Auto Mobile
Builder of Tunnels In National Capital Buys Apartment House
In Washington DC a noted tunnel builder, Ter Harrison Gray Dyar, reportedly bought an elite apartment property for 2,300,000 dollars amid speculation about underground passages. The report ties Dyar to vast plans and a bicentennial Washington celebration discussed by President Coolidge and Congress for 1922.
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National Capital
Harry BB. Hunt
Washington Treathless
Hottes Residence
Harrison Gray Dyar
National Museum
Trequure
Dr. Dyar
Washington
Clearse
Coolidge
Armincemente
Bewty
Politics cited as basis for bank case suit in Iowa
In Des Moines a Washington case claims a bank settlement involved senators Smith W. Brookhart and J. J. Brookhart. J. J. Brookhart called the petition a politics attack while defending the settlement as approved by a grand jury and free of fraud. He denied motives linked to opponents and stressed stockholder duty to save the bank.
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Frensh Stath House
Des Moines
Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
United States
J. J. Brookhart
Senate
Brookhart Brothers
Brookhart
H. M. Havner
Ita Hayner
Epa Pene
Board of Supervisors
Young Man Breaks Wrist Working With Gas Engine
A young man sustained a fractured left wrist today while working with a gasoline engine.
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Homer Bick
Funeral services for Miss Edna Lane at Breese & Krouth
Funeral services were held for Miss Edna Lane at Breese and Krouth with Dr. W W Bowers in charge. Pallbearers included Arthur Swift Frank Longwell Russel Conner Morris Swisher Dale Darbyshire and Warren McAvoy. A male quartet from the Methodist choir sang Mungie won while Harial rested in Woodlawn cemetery.
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Momers
Edna Lane
Breese & Krouth
W. W. Bowers
Arthur Swift
Frank Longwell
Russel Conner
Morris Swisher
Dale Darbyshire
Warren McAvoy
Mungie
Methodist
Harial
Woodlawn
Card of Thanks for Idna Long
We express sincere thanks to all who offered sympathy and comfort at the time of the death of our daughter Idna Long. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Long
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Idna
Arthur Long
Difference in Beauty Four Kinds Not Inspire Affections
Quote notes Cervantes on beauty with four kinds and the one that only pleases sight fails to move the heart. The line emphasizes inner feeling over mere visual appeal.
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Cervantes
Catholic Pilgrims Headed to Rome From North America
Boston Mass February 16 The faithful aboard 486 pilgrims from across the United States and Canada travel under William Cardinal O Connell head of the Boston archdiocese on the first national pilgrimage of its kind.
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Boston
Mass
United States
Canada
Wm. Cardinal O’connell
Duke University to Release Coach Jones
Duke University will not renew coach Jones’s contract as director of athletics. The decision was announced at a Duke sports executive committee meeting in Durham North Carolina.
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Duke University
Coach Jones
Associated Press
Durham
N.C
Howard Jones
S Athletics
Rejection of Grain Rate Increase Proposal
The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected the Chicago and Northwestern proposal to raise grain and grain product rates by two cents per 100 pounds on re shipments at Kansas City. The ruling keeps existing rates in Iowa and surrounding points, preserving current pricing.
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Washington
Chicago and Northwestern
Kansas City
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Confiicwon
Parisians prefer a married president for flower trade
Flower shop owners in the Madeleine district say they care little who is president, as long as he is married. They note bachelor presidents bring no flowers, and since Doumergue took office they estimate a yearly trade loss of about 800,000 francs.
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Paris
Madeleine Diatrict
France
M. Doumergue
War is Never Right Says Sherwood Eddy
A desacribed address by Sherwood Eddy, associate general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., states that war is never right and he is through with it, root and branch, in an Iowa City state hospital report noting dogs biting children in Linn County and a rabies infection.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Iowa City
Des Moines
Sherwood Eddy
Keota man survives slip on slick river road with Buick injury
Andy Blattner, a Keota resident, narrowly escaped injury when his Buick slid off a 20 foot bank into a creek on a new road two miles south of Keota near Oscar Laubach’s place. He fixed the car with a jack and spare wheels from an old car in West Chester and drove home. The road has caused fear due to high fills and steep, eroded hills.
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Keota
Andy Blattner
Washington
Oscar Laubach
Andy
West Chester
Cavern Roof Breaks Through Above Sand Cave Rescue
Reports from Cave City Kentucky detail the 1925 Sand Cave rescue of Floyd Collins. Rescue teams reached the trapped explorer after a roof collapse and tunnel breaching, but no life signs were detected. Floyd Collins remained entombed as officials planned urgent medical rescue steps.
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Nellie Colina
Floyd
Sand Cave
Kentucky
Associated Pree
Cave City
W. D. Funkhouser
University of Kentucky
Moss
Francis
149Th Infantry
Bowling Green
Wiliam Hazlett
Chicago
Collins
Floyd Collins
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